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Items tagged with heroin assisted treatment

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Injection room saves 30 lives [04-04-13] Staff at Copenhagen’s first legal drug injection room have saved 30 lives since it opened last autumn, according to metroXpress newspaper.The deputy m...
Norway mulls decriminalising heroin smoking [01-03-13] The Norwegian government it wants to decriminalise the inhalation of heroin, a method considered less dangerous than injecting it, to reduce the numbe...
Decriminalise heroin and cocaine says Belfast drugs worker [15-02-13] One of Northern Ireland's most senior drugs workers has said that class A drugs like heroin should be decriminalised, regulated and made availabl...
David Cameron urged to take 'now or never' step on drugs reform [10-12-12] David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalis...
Crises and radical thinking on drug policy [16-08-12] It’s sad that drug policy reform must always be wrapped tragedy but alas – in the context of drugs – crisis has historically been the mother of invent...
The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS [25-06-12] The global war on drugs is driving the HIV pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consist...
EMCDDA report presents latest evidence on heroin-assisted treatment for hard-to-treat opioid users [19-04-12] A small population of chronic heroin users, once thought to be ‘untreatable’, is now benefiting from a novel type of therapy using medicinal heroin ...
New heroin-assisted treatment [01-04-12] The prescription of substitution drugs, such as methadone and buprenorphine, has become a mainstream, first-line treatment for opioid dependence, with...
Needle Park remembered [02-02-12] The Platzspitz or “Needle Park” in Zürich was one of the world’s most notorious open drug scenes, attracting users from all over Europe. After its ...
The State of Harm Reduction in Europe [02-11-11] The film crew of the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU) attended the first meeting of the European Harm Reduction Network (EuroHRN) in Marseille, ...
What the World Can Learn from Switzerland’s Drug Policy Shift [25-10-10] This short film by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (HCLU), a grantee of the Open Society Global Drug Policy Program, outlines how the country s...
Norway contemplating Heroin Assisted Treatment [13-08-10] The recent report of the Stoltenberg Committee, set up by the Norwegian Health Minister to review the country’s drug situation, included a recommendat...
The Andalusian trial on heroin-assisted treatment [01-01-10] In 2003, a randomised controlled trial (RCT) comparing injected diacetylmorphine and oral methadone was carried out in Andalusia, Spain. The subsequen...
Evaluation of Dutch Drug Policy [01-06-09] The main purpose of this evaluation was to determine to what extent the principal goal of Dutch drug policy has been achieved, as stated in the 1995...
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